El corazón negro

It is the winter of 1920, and the Ukrainian state is under Bolshevik control. Young investigator Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case in Kyiv: the illegal sale of pork amidst the terrible famine caused by the war. Under pressure from the secret police at the Lybid station, Samson does everything he can to uphold the law and stop the smuggling at the Jewish market, until his fiancée Nadezhda, with whom he lives outside of marriage, is kidnapped by striking railway workers protesting the new government's census. And when a fatal tram accident, possibly premeditated, and the possible reappearance of a killer from the past are added to the mix, it's no wonder the pork sale case takes a backseat as a race against time begins, one that will determine the fate of both Samson and Nadezhda.